NECA: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (v 6.10) Virtual Classroom Live July 13, 2026

Course Overview

Getting Started with a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand three-tier and HCI
• Understand the Nutanix product portfolio
• Understand nodes, blocks, clusters, and cluster services
• Get started with Prism Central and Prism Element
• Understand when to use Prism Central and Prism Element

Configuring Cluster Networking

• Understand AHV networking terminology
• Use Prism Central to monitor cluster networks
• Use Prism Element to explore the Network Visualizer
• Create and update subnets and virtual switches
• Understand subnet extension and network segmentation

Module 3: Managing Images

• Understand the image service
• Use Prism Central to monitor, upload, import, and manage images

Creating VMs

• Use Prism Central to create VMs
• Use Prism Central’s self-service capabilities to create VM templates
• Use Projects in Prism Central
• Install and enable Nutanix Guest Tools

Managing VMs

• Update, clone, customize, export, and apply placement rules to VMs
• Create and apply storage policies to VMs
• Create playbooks to automate common VM administrative tasks

Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage

• Understand AOS Storage
• Understand key storage concepts such as storage pools, storage containers, redundancy factor, replication factor, capacity reservation, and snapshots
• Understand fault tolerance and failure handling mechanisms
• Create and update storage containers
• Create and update volume groups
• Use various capacity optimization features

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

• Understand data protection terms and concepts
• Understand synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities
• Create snapshots and recovery points
• Use Prism Element to configure local and remote backup and DR
• Use Nutanix Disaster Recovery to create protection policies and recovery plans
• Back up and restore Prism Central

Securing a Nutanix Cluster

• Understand Nutanix’s approach to security
• Use the Security Dashboard in Prism Central
• Use Prism Central to configure authentication, users, and RBAC
• Implement hardening features for AHV and the CVM
• Understand policies in Flow Network Security
• Understand Data-at-Rest Encryption

Migrating Workloads with Nutanix Move

• Understand, install, and upgrade Nutanix Move
• Use Move to migrate VMs
• Download Move logs

Monitoring Cluster Performance

• Understand performance monitoring features in Prism Central
• Create sessions, charts, and reports
• View and manage project resource utilization
• Create custom dashboards in Prism Central
• Resource planning and capacity runway

Monitoring Cluster Health

• Understand health monitoring features in Prism Central and Prism Element
• Get summarized and detailed health information from Prism
• Use Nutanix Cluster Check
• Collect and forward logs

Maintaining and Upgrading a Cluster

• Perform a health check
• Use node maintenance mode
• Understand hardware upgrade and replacement tasks
• Start and stop nodes and clusters
• Add and remove nodes
• Understanding and exploring Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
• Using LCM to perform inventory and upgrades

Investigating and Remediating Performance Issues

• Understand alerts and events and the associated dashboards in Prism Central
• Troubleshooting issues with protection policies, LCM, security, performance, and so on
• Identify problematic or inefficient VMs
• Potential methods of remediating problematic VMs